From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: How to find directory where the program is?
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 05:57:15 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2002-04-26T05:57:15+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnachr1r.17v.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: aaa3e5$54e$1@ns.felk.cvut.cz
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 01:28:19 +0200, Sergey Koshcheyev wrote:
> Well, everybody does it this way anyway (if I understood correctly).
> Also, why mess with complicated, non-portable and non-reliable things
> like determining the executable path? For example, if somebody creates
> a (symbolic) link to your program from some directory, why require
> them to also create links for the data?
Actually I think that they have several paths hardcoded as I can see
from strace output that they search in several directories for a file.
But I'm a bit uncertain how you do this with autoconf/make. Anyway I
would like to look into these things a bit more before I resort to
hardcoding.
Preben
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2002-04-23 18:28 How to find directory where the program is? Preben Randhol
2002-04-23 19:10 ` Florian Weimer
2002-04-23 19:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-04-23 20:53 ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-23 21:04 ` Joachim Schr�er
2002-04-24 8:35 ` Thierry Lelegard
2002-04-24 8:43 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2002-04-24 10:33 ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-24 11:43 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2002-04-24 14:44 ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-24 15:38 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-04-24 17:44 ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-24 23:08 ` Nick Roberts
2002-04-25 7:28 ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-25 14:18 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-26 16:24 ` Stephen Leake
2002-04-26 20:41 ` achrist
2002-04-26 21:31 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-04-29 15:38 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-25 17:10 ` Sergey Koshcheyev
2002-04-25 21:11 ` Nick Roberts
2002-04-25 23:28 ` Sergey Koshcheyev
2002-04-26 5:57 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
2002-04-26 16:22 ` Stephen Leake
2002-04-26 17:13 ` Anders Gidenstam
2002-04-26 12:18 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2002-04-26 12:23 ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-26 12:48 ` David C. Hoos
2002-04-26 14:13 ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-27 8:18 ` Eric G. Miller
2002-04-26 13:09 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-27 14:39 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-04-27 21:12 ` Nick Roberts
2002-04-29 15:52 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-24 17:44 ` Egil Harald Hoevik
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2002-04-23 19:24 Beard, Frank [Contractor]
2002-04-23 19:56 Beard, Frank [Contractor]
2002-04-23 22:41 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-04-23 23:28 Beard, Frank [Contractor]
2002-04-24 0:49 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-04-24 2:31 ` achrist
2002-04-24 10:29 ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-24 15:28 ` Darren New
2002-04-24 17:43 ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-24 18:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-04-24 21:00 ` Wes Groleau
2002-04-25 19:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-04-25 2:37 ` Steve Doiel
2002-04-25 7:26 ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-24 9:44 Grein, Christoph
2002-04-25 10:35 ` Thierry Lelegard
2002-04-25 19:30 ` Philippe Waroquiers
2002-04-25 22:57 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-04-25 16:43 Beard, Frank [Contractor]
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